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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Plan To End Birthright Citizenship

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January 23, 2025
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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order to end automatic citizenship to babies born on American soil, dealing the president his first setback as he attempts to upend the nation’s immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent.

In a hearing held three days after Mr. Trump issued his executive order, a Federal District Court judge, John C. Coughenour, sided at least for the moment with four states that sued.

“This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” he said.

“Frankly,” he continued, challenging Trump administration lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.”

Mr. Trump’s order, issued in the opening hours of his presidency, declared that children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants would no longer be treated as citizens.

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The order also extended to babies of mothers who were in the country legally but temporarily, such as tourists, university students or temporary workers.

In response, 22 states, along with activist groups and expectant mothers, filed six lawsuits to halt the so-called order, arguing that it violates the 14th Amendment.

Legal precedent has long interpreted the amendment — that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States” — applies to every baby born in the United States, with few exceptions.

In the case before Judge Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, who was nominated to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, the state attorneys general from Washington, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona had argued that Mr. Trump’s order would deny rights and benefits to more than 150,000 children born each year and leave some of them stateless.

States would also lose federal funding for various assistance programs.

In their briefs, the states cite testimony from then-Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger. In 1995, Mr. Dellinger told Congress that a law limiting birthright citizenship would be “unconstitutional on its face” and that even a constitutional amendment would “flatly contradict the nation’s constitutional history and constitutional traditions.”

Federal government lawyers argued in the hearing that they should have the opportunity to provide a more complete briefing to the court because the executive order would not take effect until next month.

The states responded that the administration’s order created an immediate burden for them, requiring them to alter systems that determine eligibility for federal-backed programs, and that births of new babies would have a cloud over them.

Judge Coughenour emphatically agreed with the states: “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades,” he said.

“I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is.

This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Where were the lawyers when this decision was being made?”

A separate federal lawsuit filed by 18 other states and two cities is being considered in Massachusetts.
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